If you make WordPress sites for a living, you\u2019ve probably worked with clients, and you\u2019ve probably been through the occasional tough project. Collaborating with your clients and forming a true alliance with them is delicate art. But, this talk won\u2019t focus on what seems to go wrong with these collaborations \u2013\u2013 it will focus on how to get it right.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll compare assumptions that developers and clients often bring to a project, and look at how they are similar in some ways (e.g., the excitement of creating something new) and different in others (e.g. features that may strike clients as simple, but are actually difficult to build, and situations where developers assume a content management task will be easy for the clients, when it\u2019s actually heinous).<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll also talk about a comparative wish list of skills and attitudes developers and clients tend to wish the other had, and we\u2019ll talk about the anatomy of an ideal collaboration and the sorts of shared ideas and exchanges that can happen at every phase of a typical web product cycle, especially the initial discovery phase, where we identify the known knowns, the known unknowns, and as many of the unknown unknowns as we can.<\/p>\n
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